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Edward Norton has never been one of them.
Hes not one of those mysterious few anointed with the innately watchable quality we call movie stardom.
This practice has neither aged well nor proved to have a whole lot of staying power in popular memory.
Faded from memory or not, the film feels as if it set the tenor for Nortons career.
Norton put his skill for delineating personas to use in other ways, too.
He played a Brown philosophy professor and his pot-dealing identical twin in Tim Blake Nelsons 2009Leaves of Grass.
In 2019, its a more awkward creation, marked by ideas and approaches that have accrued some dust.
Lionels Tourettes syndrome is one of the few key elements Norton kept.
Motherless Brooklynisnt Nortons directorial debut.
He wouldnt go on to play roles like the one he does inKeeping the Faithmuch after that.
Everyone deserves moments of making things look easy.
